Julia Schneider

Julia Schneider was an Israeli Mossad agent who was stationed in Buenos Aires, Argentina during the 1950s and 1960s. She served as Eli Cohen's handler during his stay in Argentina under the pseudonym "Kamel Amin Thaabet", and she angrily forced him to abandon his previous life by burning his personal correspondence and convincing him that his wife and "Eli Cohen" did not exist. She later helped him infiltrate the Syrian elite at Club Damasco, and they both killed a Syrian agent who had witnessed Cohen deliver a stolen camera to Schneider (Cohen had done so without being ordered to, believing that it could help to identify Syrian persons of interest). Schneider attempted to dissuade him from returning to his infiltration after the agent's death, but Cohen decided not only to continue his infiltration, but also speed up his return to Syria by visiting Hafiz al-Amin the next day and receiving a letter of recommendation from him.